Effective Leadership Skills

I. Course Prefix/Number:
MGT 225

Course Name:
Effective Leadership Skills

Credits:
3 (3 lecture; 0 lab)

II. Prerequisite

None

III. Course (Catalog) Description

Course explores how effective leadership skills contribute to organizational effectiveness, employee motivation and success, and personal growth and development. Content includes current leadership models, with focus on identifying and developing workplace leadership skills; development of action plan to illustrate and improve leadership skills.

Explain Robert Quinn’s Model of the Master Manager and give workplace examples demonstrating the model

Identify effective leadership traits, behaviors, and values including specific behaviors for managing work and relationships

Critique participate leadership and delegation in a work environment

Discuss the roles of teams and teams leadership in a work environment

Conduct a self-assessment of basic and advanced leadership skills, explain the importance of leadership skills to fostering employee growth, and develop a personal plan for the enhancement of these skills

V. Academic Integrity and Student Conduct

Students and employees at Oakton Community College are required to demonstrate academic integrity
and follow Oakton's Code of Academic Conduct. This code prohibits:

• cheating,
• plagiarism (turning in work not written by you, or lacking proper
citation),
• falsification and fabrication (lying or distorting the truth),
• helping others to cheat,
• unauthorized changes on official documents,
• pretending to be someone else or having someone else pretend to
be you,
• making or accepting bribes, special favors, or threats, and
• any other behavior that violates academic integrity.

There are serious consequences to violations of the academic integrity
policy. Oakton's policies and procedures provide students a fair
hearing if a complaint is made against you. If you are found to have violated
the policy, the minimum penalty is failure on the assignment and, a disciplinary
record will be established and kept on file in the office of the Vice
President for Student Affairs for a period of 3 years.

Effective leadership behaviors, traits, and values including specific behaviors for managing work and relationships

Participative leadership and delegation

Teams and team leadership

Power, politics, and influence

Gary Yukl’s Model of Leadership Skills

Robert Quinn’s Model of the Master Manager

Personal leadership development plan

VII. Methods of Instruction

The course will be a combination of lecture-discussion and developmental exercises aimed at allowing students to discover and develop their leadership skills. The latter part of the course will focus on students gaining experience employing leadership skills in simulated organizational settings.
Course may be taught as face-to-face, hybrid or online course.

VIII. Course Practices Required

All students will be expected to be active learners bringing their backgrounds and experiences to the class. They will be expected to come prepared to class and ready to contribute to the group experience. Additionally, they should be ready to offer and receive and act on constructive feedback from the class. Throughout the course, students will accomplish much of the work on teams.

Course may be taught as face-to-face, hybrid or online course.

IX. Instructional Materials

Note: Current textbook information for each course and section is available on Oakton's Schedule of Classes.

Varies by instructor

X. Methods of Evaluating Student Progress

Course grades will be determined by the student's demonstration of proficiency regarding course objectives and understanding of the course material based on the following as determined by the instructor: Class discussion, in- and out-of-class individual and group assignments and activities, attendance and participation, Internet-based activities, quizzes and/or tests.

XI. Other Course Information

Use of Computers and Information Technology:When you apply at Oakton as a credit student, you are automatically assigned a computer network account and email address. While you are registered for classes and any financial obligations to the College are fulfilled, you may use this account to log into workstations in any of the open or classroom computer labs. Your account gives you access to the wide variety of application programs available on Oakton's Network and on-campus access to the Internet.

Rules for computer use are posted in computer labs as well as available in writing in each of the labs. Lab assistants and tutors are available to assist you in the lab regarding software and hardware questions.

Users of the College’s information technology facilities and resources, including hardware, software, networks, and computer accounts, are expected to use computer resources responsibly and appropriately, respecting the rights of other information technology users and respecting all contractual and license agreements.

Under no circumstances is any of the software used at Oakton to be copied. Copying software is in violation of Federal law and College policies. Suspected violations will be vigorously investigated and, if warranted, appropriate penalties applied. Specifically, you do not have the right (1) to make copies of software for yourself or others, (2) to receive and use unauthorized copies of software, or (3) copy all or parts of a program written by someone else.

College Policy on the Observance of Religious Holidays:Oakton Community College recognizes the broad diversity of religious beliefs of its constituencies. The College has embraced a practice of shared responsibility in the event a religious observance interferes with class work or assignments. Students who inform instructors well in advance of an intended absence for a major religious observance will not be penalized. The instructor will make reasonable accommodations for students, which may include providing a make up test, altering assignment dates, permitting a student to attend another section of the same course for a class period or similar remedies. Instructors are not responsible for teaching material again.

If you have a documented learning, psychological, or physical disability you may be entitled to reasonable academic accommodations or services. To request accommodations or services, contact the Access and Disability Resource Center at the Des Plaines or Skokie campus. All students are expected to fulfill essential course requirements. The College will not waive any essential skill or requirement of a course or degree program.

Oakton Community College is committed to maintaining a campus environment emphasizing the dignity and worth of all members of the community, and complies with all federal and state Title IX requirements.

Electronic video and/or audio recording is not permitted during class unless the student obtains written permission from the instructor. In cases where recordings are allowed, such content is restricted to personal use only. Any distribution of such recordings is strictly prohibited. Personal use is defined as use by an individual student for the purpose of studying or completing course assignments.

For students who have been approved for audio and/or video recording of lectures and other classroom activities as a reasonable accommodation by Oakton’s Access Disabilities Resource Center (ADRC), applicable federal law requires instructors to permit those recordings. Such recordings are also limited to personal use. Any distribution of such recordings is strictly prohibited.

Violation of this policy will result in disciplinary action through the Code of Student Conduct.